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  • Disabled fear Schiavo death may hasten euthanasia

    04/22/2005 10:18:32 AM PDT · by amdgmary · 149 replies · 2,276+ views
    Florida Baptist Witness ^ | April 21, 2005 | TOM STRODE
    WASHINGTON(BP)-Disabled Americans feel vulnerable in the wake of Terri Schiavo's death and need societal and legal changes if their lives are going to be protected, leaders of two disability organizations said. In the hours after Schiavo died March 31, both Joni Eareckson Tada and Diane Coleman said the brain-damaged Florida woman's death and the events leading to it do not bode well for other severely disabled people unless some changes are implemented. Schiavo, 41, died nearly two weeks after the tube that provided her with food and water was disconnected at a state judge's order. For years, her parents and...